How To Create More Authentic Writing Assignments For Students
Authentic writing assignments should have a clear purpose and audience in mind–ideally a ‘resistant’ audience they must work to engage.
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12 Of The Best Digital Tools And Rhyming Dictionaries For Writing
These 12 rhyming dictionaries and tools can help you find rhyming words, synonyms, and other forms of creative wordplay.
Actor’s Theatre Streaming Performances During COVID-19 Closure
Actors Theatre of Louisville announces Actors Theatre Direct: on-demand content to ensure that theatre continues to thrive during COVID-19 quarantine.
A Simple Definition For Poetry
A Simple Definition For Poetry by Terry Heick As an English teacher, my students would ask me ‘what a poem …
How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements
Tweets are limited to 280 characters–plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.
How David Foster Wallace Taught Students To Respond To One Another’s Writing
The reader, in fact, will feel about you, your subject, and your essay only what your written words themselves induce her to feel.
Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.
21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read and write.
Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is different–endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.
12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century
How can you teach Shakespeare to students accustomed to tiny screens with brief flashes of communication that instantly fade away?
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor by Terry Heick In April of …
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How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder
How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder by Terry Heick For many humanities teachers, how you have students organize …
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